Quotes About Understanding

It's been my experience that presence and silence are most helpful," she says. "Be there without judgment or advice to listen when he is ready to talk.

Toddlers have limited capacity to understand the Lifebook as more than a story. However, the seed is planted for later understanding of and receptivity to information about their earliest days before becoming part of their adoptive family. The tone of voice and emotional demeanor of the adult telling the adoption story while showing the Lifebook is extremely important at this age. Respect, empathy, and support for everyone who has been part of the child's life history are important.

Do you ever speak a known language? Sanskrit, perhaps?

Michael is easier to understand—he had to believe in Caroline. To betray a friend was despicable—to acknowledge that he had done so for a woman who was utterly unworthy

behind the anger, she saw that he loved her

What a pity that men couldn't find such satisfactions without killing so many of their fellows.

How much does anyone ever know about another man's heart?

Un frate este cel mai bun aliat al unui om intr-o lume dificila, caci nimeni nu intelege la fel de bine fortele care ne formeaza pe viata.

Men are imperfect creatures, aren't they? But they are the only opposite sex we have, so we must make the best of them.

Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it." Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic.

But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very fragile and precious in the idea, though she didn't really understand it. Maybe someday she would.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

Sometimes you have to trust your heart, too. You give what you think the other person needs, and hope they know that you're doing it out of love.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.

Well, perhaps he's not my best friend, but I don't think he hates me anymore.

It was so easy for women,their arms opened out instinctively and they gathered in whatever hurt there was and that was that, they didn't even have to think about it.

he could see now that it was possible; that someone might be in so much pain they couldn't even hear what anyone else said, far less be comforted by it.

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Engrave this upon your heart: there isn't anyone you couldn't love once you heard their story.

There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.

There isn't a person you wouldn't love if you could read their story

My mother knew when to listen and when to pray and when to help. I wonder hoy many people knew the compassion Mary Finlayson held for them and how hard, in the privacy of her God Box, she prayed for them and their struggles.